The animal resembles a "stretched out and more slender version of a raccoon" and was found trotting through the forest.

UPDATE: I spoke with Tom Cadden, a public information officer with the Arizona Game and Fish Department today, who provided some helpful information on this story. First, Cadden explained that Stan ...

“Curious” critters were spotted swarming a road at an Arizona park, park rangers said. The “cousin of the raccoon,” an animal called the coati, who is a “longtime resident of Arizona,” was seen ...